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John Bull
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"If you google 'ERG fascists' you get 237,000 results and ERG extremists' you get 176,000" says ERG member Owen Paterson in the Commons. I think he's trying to make a point about incendiary language.

"I'm not sure this is helping us" mutters a colleague off camera near a mic. 😂
ERG gammon yields 294,000 I notice.
ERG KFC yields 1,700,000

I fear there are flaws in Owen's methodology
Which is really unusual for an ERG member.
ERG Communists is 461,000
ERG crap ties 1,290,000 results. I don't think anyone can argue with that one.
Just realised I'm going to get some CRAZY google ads for the next few weeks now.
ERG expenses fraud is 248,000. h/t to @peterbelk for that one.
@peterbelk ERG bronies is 330,000
@peterbelk ERG streisand effect is only 22,600. Suspect that's about to change. h/t @robtelford for that one.
@peterbelk @robtelford ERG AfD is about 692,000 results. Strange Owen didn't mention that one.

(AfD are the far right German Party Rees-Mogg likes)
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Orders of/in Council are in the news. HISTORY THREAD TIME!

Meet James Stephen and Spencer Perceval, the playboy and the evangelist, the ODDEST political friends ever.

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Smarter mind than me below.

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Watching parliament again. Because I hate myself apparently.

Oh look it's little Dominic Raab, pretending to be a Foreign Secretary in the same way children pretend to be Firefighters.
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There has long been a reason why I haven't written Boris into the Brexit tapes and people saw that tonight.

He's not funny. He's not clever. He's a sociopath who will burn this country down for ten more minutes in Number 10.

He terrifies me. Pure and simple.
I have spent time in that man's company and there is not an ounce of compassion or understanding in his being. Everything is an act.

He has one single focus: Boris Johnson.

And there are no depths he wouldn't sink to, or worlds he wouldn't burn, to be Prime Minister.
I wish it wasn't true. He's a smart guy and in a different time or place I'd have liked him.

But he is a terrible human being. I don't say that lightly but it is true.

He will destroy every norm we have. He will play the populist card and break democracy. All he wants is to win
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